Bibliometrics Impact of Scientific Research at URACCAN, 2013-2017

Abstract

The current article shares the Bibliometrics Impact of Scientific Research at The University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN), it is focused in the printed and digital research production and publishing between 2013 – 2017. The research was developed under the quantitative approach with a cross-sectional scope.

Among the main results stand out: i) URACCAN scientific production from 2013-2017 were 787 investigations, of which 78.5% corresponds to monographic research, 10.8% to thesis and 10.7% to free research from the institutes, research centers, teacher researchers and personnel from technical areas; ii) From 2013 to 2017, URACCAN published a total of 20 issues of its scientific journals, with 169 articles, 89 in the Science and Intercultural Magazine and 80 in the University Journal of the Caribbean; iii) The scientific publication of the University in digital format has been very successful, from June 2011 to January 2018, in three portals, a total of 574,649 downloads of articles were made in pdf format, from these ones, 333,488 downloads were made in the Portal of URACCAN Magazines, 205,853 in the Directory of Academic Journal Lamjol and 35,308 in the Portal of Nicaragua Magazines; iv) From August 2015 to November 2018, the Science and Interculturality Magazine obtains the first place in downloads of articles from the public universities journals, and the second place overall of 49 journals from Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, hosted in Lamjol.